Psychological Thrillers with Eric Hart

Psychological Thrillers - Take Part 1 & 2 to receive a discount!

This class will be offered in two parts with four films in each part - Part 1 in October and Part 2 in January and February. We will discuss the concept of what constitutes “A Psychological Thriller.” Films will focus on movies that are dark and intense but are not graphically violent. The films will be a mixture of classic and contemporary. Light refreshments will be served at each class.

Part I from October 2 - 23

(CLASS STARTED ON OCTOBER 2, BUT ROOM IS STILL AVAILABLE)

We will watch the following films:

The Vanishing – George Sluizer (1988)

Tuesday, October 2 from 5:30- 8pm

The Vanishing is adapted from the novella The Golden Egg (1984) by Tim Krabbé. It

stars Gene Bervoets as a man who searches obsessively for his girlfriend following her

disappearance at a rest area. Dutch with Subtitles. 157 min.

Vertigo- Alfred Hitchcock (1958)

Tuesday, Oct 9, 5:30 - 8pm

Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest

films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French

novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. Starring

James Stewart and Kim Novak. USA 128 min

I am Not Scared - Gabriele Salvatores (2004)

Tuesday, Oct. 16 from 5:30 - 8pm

In the midst of a sea of golden wheat a nine-year old boy discovers a

secret so momentous, so terrible, that he daren’t not tell anyone about it.

To come to terms with it he will have to draw strength from his own

imagination and sense of humanity. Italian 104 min.

Gaslight George Cukor (1948)

Tuesday, Oct 23 from 5:30 – 8pm

Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves

back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he

will do anything to protect, even if it means driving his wife insane. Stars

Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten. USA 114min.

Part 2 from January 29 - February 19

THE OTHERS– Alejandro Amenabar (2001)

Tuesday, January 29 from 5:30- 8pm

The film maker sends his camera down shadowy corridors and into cavernous rooms to

create a mood of elegant dread. It is persuasively spooky, and even manages to be

poignant, thanks to a fierce performance by Nicole Kidman. She plays a woman living

with her two children and three peculiar servants in a fog-shrouded house on the island

of Jersey, in the English Channel. USA 104 min.

REPULSION- Roman Polanski (1965)

Tuesday, February 5 from 5:30 - 8pm

In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole

(Catherine Deneuve) suffers from fear of men. When her sister and roommate, Helen ,

leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole

withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear

gradually mutating into madness. Great Britain 95min.

THE CONVERSATION-Francis Ford Coppola (1974)

Tuesday, February 12 from 5:30 - 8pm

A paranoid and secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he

suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. Outstanding performance

by Gene Hackman. USA 113min.

The OTHER-Robert Mulligan (1972)

Tuesday, February 19 from 5:30– 8pm

In the summer of 1935, 12-year-old twins Niles and Holland Perry live with their family on a

Connecticut farm. Their grandmother Ada has taught them something called "the game." A

number of accidents begin happening, and it seems to Niles that Holland is responsible. It is

Ada who begins to see the truth. USA 108 min.